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Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

UNITED STATES FFTCEQ PATENT JAMES Q. DICKINSON, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDlVAR-D L. C. WARD, OF FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 603,131, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed Ap i 2, 1896. $eria1ll'o. 585,965. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES Q. DICKINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to beds in general, and more particularly to that class commonly known as extension-beds; and it has for its object to provide an extension attachment for an ordinary bed, whereby said bed may be enlarged to accommodate more than its usual capacity or may be provided with an auxiliary crib or cradle, so that a child or other occupant may sleep in proximity to a person occupying the bed proper. To accomplish this result, I attach on the inner face and transverse the headboard and footboard feet a grooved rail or runner, the groove of which is adapted to receive a slide. Each of these slots is provided with an inner short upright and an outer long upright pivotally connected thereto, the latter extending below the slide to form a support therefor. Pivoted to the upper ends of the said uprights is a frame in which may be arranged a bed-bottom to form a crib, or, if preferred, the ends of said frame may have journals adapted to receive the trunnions of a cradle. When in use, this frame and its contents lie in the same plane with the bed; but when not in use the frame is pulled outwardly, when, on account of its pivotal connections with its supports and the similar connections of the latter with the slides, the frame will describe an arc of a circle, so that its bottom will lie in the plane of the slides and its supports will lie against the latter. The frame may be then shoved toward the bed and, being guided by the slides operating in the rails, will pass entirely beneath the bed.

-In the drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like letters of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bed constructed in accordance with my invention,

the extension being in position for use. Fig. 2 is a section-rail and slide therein, showing the forms of the slide and the rail-groove. Fig. 3 is an end view of a portion of Fig. 1, taken in the direction of the arrow; and Fig. 4 is a side View of the body with its attachment folded into place.

Referring now to the drawings, a. is the headboard, and b the footboard, of a bed. The headboard is supplied with the ordinary feet 0, as is also the footboard.

Secured to the inner faces of the headboardfeet is a transverse rail (Z, provided with a longitudinal groove c, adapted to receive a slot f.

Pivoted to the outer end of the slot f is an upright g, extending above and below said slide and provided at its lower extremity with a roller h or other form of bearing. Pivoted a suitable distance from the upright g is a second upright i, which, however, need not extend below the slide f. The feet of the footboard are likewise provided with a grooved rail in which works a similar slide having like supports pivoted thereto. These supports 9 and 1 form the legs of a box-like frame It, with which they are pivotally connected, which said frame may be provided with the usual crib-bottom or may have journals Z and m, adapted to receive the trunnions n and o of a cradle 19.

The slides f are provided each with a transverse plate 7, adapted to engage storks s on the rail cl to limit the outward movement of the slides, which said outward movement is such that the supports of the frame It may incline outwardly toward the side of the bed proper, so that the frame may lean against them.

When it is desired to fold the frame away, it is drawn outwardly from the bed, when it will describe an arc of a circle, as has been intimated, and its supports will lie against and in the planes of their respective slides and rails, when the entire mechanism may be slid under the bed and be supported by the rail through the medium of the slides working in their grooves.

It will readily. be understood that I may vary the specific construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described without departing in any way from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my improved device, What I claim is 1. A device of the class described comprisin g a major frame, slideways carried thereby, slides adapted to move in said slideways, uprights pivoted intermediate their extremities at the ends of the slides, additional uprights pivoted to the slides, and a supplemental frame carried by the uprights, the first-named uprights being adapted-to engage the floor and support the outer ends of the slides.

2. A device of the class described comprising a major frame having slideways, slides adapted to move therein, uprights pivoted to the slides and adapted to project above and below the latter, the lower portion forming supports for the outer ends of the slides, ad-

ditional uprights pivoted to the slides, and a supplemental frame pivoted to the uprights, the slides being adapted for withdrawal sufficiently to allow the supplemental frame to recline against the major frame.

3. A device of the class described comprising a major frame having slideways, slides adapted to move therein, supports for said slides pivoted thereto and projecting thereabove when in operative position, a supplemental frame pivoted to the supports, bearings in the supplemental frame and a cradle provided with trunnions adapted to work in the said bearings.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES Q. DICKINSON.

\Vitnesses:

B. E. DRYDEN, M. A. DAvIs. 

